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Therapeutic Ways With Words
Therapeutic Ways with Words provides a unique glimpse into language use in psychotherapy, a major speech event which has previously been shrouded in mystery. This important book shows how both clients and therapists accomplish their aims through language, which, paradoxically, is both the method of diagnosis and the medium of treatment in this cultural practice. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461124271
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Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings A Casebook
Perhaps more than other single text, Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings helped to establish the audience and the 'mainstream' status of the renaissance in black women's writing, paving the way for the future success of Alice Walker, Terry McMillan, Sherley Anne Williams, and perhaps even Toni Morrison. With Bill Clinton's choice of Angelou as his inaugural poet, interest in her work continues to increase. This casebook will be a most useful guide that will see wide use in the areas where Angelou's autobiography shows a continuing and flourishing readership, especially American autobiography, African-American literature, and women's studies. Along with the introduction by Braxton and an interview with Angelou conducted especially for this volume by Claudia Tate, the selected essays provide at of critical approaches to the text. The book also includes a unique range drawing of her childhood surroundings in Stamps, Arkansas, drawn by Angelou herself. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461124414
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Credit Derivatives & Synthetic Structures A Guide to Instruments and Applications 2nd Edition
Fully revised and updated Here is the only comprehensive source that explains the various instruments in the market, their economic value, how to document trades, and more. This new edition includes enhanced treatment of U.S. and worldwide regulatory issues, and new product structures. 'If you want to know more about credit derivatives--and these days an increasing number of people do--then you should read this book.' --Merton H. Miller, winner, Nobel Prize in Economics, 1990 'Tavakoli brings extraordinary insight and clarity to this fascinating financial evolution . . .'--Carl V. Schuman, Manager, Credit Derivatives, West LB New York Janet M. Tavakoli (Chicago, IL) is Vice President of the Chicago branch of Bank of America, where she directs the company's overall marketing of global derivatives and manages its CreditMetrics initiative. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461124719
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Persons and Causes The Metaphysics of Free Will
This provocative book refurbishes the traditional account of freedom of will as reasons-guided 'agent' causation, situating its account within a general metaphysics. O'Connor's discussion of the general concept of causation and of ontological reductionism v. emergence will specially interest metaphysicians and philosophers of mind. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461409954
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Priests Prelates and People A History of European Catholicism since 1750
Nicholas Atkin and Frank Tallett offer the first one-volume historical overview of European Catholicism from the 18th century to 2002. The authors record the Church struggling to adapt to the new political landscape ushered in by the French Revolution and show how the formation of nation states and identities was both helped and hindered by the Catholic establishment. They portray the Vatican increasingly out of step in the wake of world war, Cold War, and the massive expansion of the developing world, with its problems of population growth and under-development. This is not the story of the Church in all its glory, but one of adaptation and change, of decline and resilience as the Church has responded to social, political, and cultural changes over the last 250 years. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461410113
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Beyond the Double Bind Women and Leadership
'I can remember', says lawyer Flo Kennedy, 'going to court in pants and the judge remarking that I wasn't properly dressed, that the next time I came to court I should be dressed like a lawyer'. It was a moment painfully familiar to countless women: a demand that she conform to a stereotype of feminine dress and behavior - which would also mark her as an intruder, rising above her assigned station (as the saying goes, she dared to 'wear the pants' in the courtroom). Kennedy took one look at the judge's robe - essentially 'a long black dress gathered at the yoke' - and said, 'Judge, if you won't talk about what I'm wearing, I won't talk about what you're wearing'. In Beyond the Double Bind, Kathleen Hall Jamieson takes her cue from Kennedy's comeback to argue that the catch-22 that often blocks women from success can be overcome. Sparking her narrative with potent accounts of the many ways women have beaten the double bind that would seem to damn them no matter what they choose to do, Jamieson provides a rousing and emphatic denouncement of victim feminism and the acceptance of inevitable failure. As she explores society's interlaced traps and restrictions, she draws on hundreds of interviews with women from all walks of life to show the ways they cut through them. Kennedy, for example, faced the bind that insists that women cannot be both feminine and competent - and then demands that they be feminine first; she undermined that trap with wry wit. Ruth Bader Ginsberg attacked the same quandary head-on: when she heard that her law-school nickname was 'bitch', she replied, 'Better bitch than mouse'. Jamieson explores the full range of such double binds (the uterus-brain bind, for example -'you can't conceive children and ideas at the same time'; or the assertion, 'You are too special to be equal'), offering a roadmap for moving past these barricades to advancement. Unlike other breakthrough feminist writers, she finds grounds for optimism in areas ranging from slow improvements in women's earnings to newly effective legal remedies, from growing social awareness to the determination and skill of individual women who are fighting the double bind. Jamieson is a widely sought-after authority on politics and communications; this book marks a dramatic new departure for her, one certain to win widespread attention. With intensive research and incisive analysis, she provides a landmark account of the binds that ensnare women's lives - and the ways they can overcome them. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461572597
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The Role of Government in East Asian Economic Development Comparative Institutional Analysis
This collection of papers stems from a recent World Bank project focused upon the contentious issue of whether government has played any positive rote in the success of the so-called 'high-performing' Asian economies. It goes beyond the influential WorLd Bank volume The East Asian Miracle to chart a middle ground that recognizes diversity among the different East Asian economies, as well as the evolutionary nature of government intervention. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461572764
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What God Has Joined Together The Annulment Crisis in American Catholicism
The United States is home to only six percent of the world's Catholics, but it now accounts for 75 percent of all Church annulments.This revealing look at annulment weaves painstaking analysis with a wealth of evidence to illuminate the degree to which the U.S. Catholic Church has gone its own way since Vatican II on what constitutes a valid marriage. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461666116
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Water A Matter of Life and Health Water Supply and Sanitation in Village India
At a time when India faces serious problems of freshwater scarcity, groundwater depletion and environmental pollution, there is much to be learned from the lessons of past and present. This book examines critically what has been done and what more needs to be done to fulfill the promise of drinking water and sanitation for all . The central thread of the story is Unicef s 35-year program of support to rural water supplies in India one of the largest, longest, and most ground-breaking in the organization s history. Having helped to bring water and sanitation within revery of millions of India s villagers, questions now arise about whether these achievements are in jeopardy. As water tables drop and contamination mounts, how is village India going to cope? The book focuses on the Unicef experience but ranges wider, exploring community-led, NGO, and government approaches alike. From the Rajasthani farmer facing a fifth successive year of drought, to the sanitation mistri in West Bengal, to the Mysore school children chanting safe water messages, this is an account which brings to life India s perennial problems with water and health, asking how and whether they can be solved. This is an important book for those working in the water supplies sector, in government and NGOs engineering students and academics involved in water water activists environmental and public health specialists those involved in aid and development work, especially in its international dimensions those interested in the story of social development in India over time. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461666239
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Beyond the Hundredth Meridian John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West
The author recounts the successes and frustrations of John Wesley Powell, the distinguished ethnologist and geologist who explored the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon, and the homeland of Indian tribes of the American Southwest. 'No library of western/southwestern materials can be without this book. . . '.-- Books of the Southwest. - Books Reading - New - 461512726
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Adoption Handbook The Penguin
Completely updated to reflect changes in state and federal adoption laws and the rise of nontraditional adoption strategies, The Penguin Adoption Handbook takes readers step-by-step through the adoption process. An essential guide to adopting the child you want. - Books Reading - New - 461512850
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Contemporary American Poetry
An anthology of works by modern American poets - Books Reading - New - 461512877
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American Dream Three Women Ten Kids And A Nation's Drive to End Welfare
A critically acclaimed reporter for The New York Times provides an in-depth study of the conflict between government social policy and the realities of life in post-welfare America, focusing on the lives of three women in a single extended family. Reprint. - Books Reading - New - 461513024
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Namath
Discusses the football star's upbringing as the son of a Hungarian immigrant in the steel country of Pennsylvania, his achievements at the University of Alabama, his career with the New York Jets, and his legendary status. - Books Reading - New - 461513034
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